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Donations. — The Chairman presented 50 specimens of land and 

 fresh water shells found in the district ; he laid on the table 

 notes on Naias Graminea, and the report of the Botanical 

 Exchange Club, as donations from Mr Arthur Bennett. 



Exhibits. — Mr Rutherford exhibited a tree frog from India 

 and a puss moth ; Miss Robb exhibited a number of New 

 Zealand plants and several articles of the Maori handiwoi'k, also 

 a few specimens of limestone and minerals from the neighbour- 

 hood of Bristol. 



Alteration of Rule. — Notice having been given at last meeting 

 by Mr Lennox, it was unanimously agreed to alter Rule I. so as 

 to omit the word " scientific " in the title of the Society. 



Tlie Secretary reported that the Committee had decided to 

 have an intermediate course of lectures during this session, on 

 the third Friday of tlie month, and to purchase Science Gossip, 

 the Scottish Naturalist, and the Micrograjihic Dictionary. The 

 Committee's decisions were unanimously approved of. 



Communications. 

 I. A List of Kirkcudbright Mollusks. By Mr R. F. Coles, Vice- 

 President. 

 Last April, at the close of our Winter Session, I was asked to 

 make a list of the Land and Fresh Water Mollusks belonging to 

 our district. Thoroughly to comply with our Secretary's request 

 — to tabulate into some resemblance of the arrangement planned 

 and set forth in the Catalogue issued by the Conchological 

 Society all the species and forms of these interesting creatures 

 likely to be or actually found in our locality — would occupy a 

 great deal more than the leisure-hours of the two seasons at my 

 disposal. I feel, therefore, that some apology is due from me, 

 when I submit only these few mounted specimens, and can give 

 names of only some 44 species out of a total of 132 admitted as 

 British. Two things have caused this — the limited area to which 

 I have confined my researches, and the fact of so many of the 

 mollusks being minute, and, without good typical specimens for 

 comparison, difiicult to distinguish. Many of them also are 

 numerous in their genus, e.g.. Vertigo, with eleven species and 

 five varieties — some of them one-fifth the size of a grain of rice ; 

 Helix, which has 25 species and about 112 varieties ; and 

 Limnoea, perhaps the most ubiquitous and prolific of all our 

 aquatic mollusks. Judging by tlie recently published cen-sus of 



